Polar FT60 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor
March 13, 2011 by Heart Rate Monitor
Filed under Women's Heart Rate Monitors, Womens Heart Rate Monitor
The Polar FT60 Womens Heart Rate Monitor comes in the color purple, making it stand out along with its many innovative features for training. It shows your heart rate as a beats per minute as well as a percentage of the maximum or within the target zone. Polar Star features a training program that you can personalize, and it will give you feedback based on your weekly training targets. In fact, it gives you regular weekly targets as well as constant feedback, which keeps the watch from being too “strict” and in the long run help you to reach your goals more efficiently. It also comes with a Polar OwnCal mode which allows you to see how much energy you are spending for each or a combination of workouts. It also comes with a Polar OwnZone and Zone Pointer modes. The watch is resistant to water of up to 30 meters and comes with a two-year warranty.
Polar FT60 Women’s Heart Rate Monitor Review:
The women who have tried this heart rate monitor watch gave it an average rating of 4.4 stars. They liked how it was a great companion for doing workouts, as it gave accurate results while being very easy to setup and operate. One user shared that she had a 42-inch chest and she found the chest band to fit fine, although she read some reviews that said the band could not fit larger chests. She also appreciated how it took only five minutes to input her demographics, check her resting fitness, set her goal and start her workout. She also described the screen as being very easy to read and easy to change during working out. The users also liked how the watch had a feature that allowed the user to enter her weight and the monitor would show her progress using a graph.
Another reviewer commended the watch setup process as being very intuitive, and the printed manual was found very useful. It was also described as giving the user an easy time to read the data shown on the watch whether before or during the workout session. Another buyer described it as the most comprehensive tool she had ever used for fitness; another lady who had gone through several Polar sports watch commended it for the improved technology. Meanwhile, even those who had never used a heart rate monitor shared how they loved it and enjoyed its flawless performance.
Those who didn’t like the heart rate monitor complained that the weekly plan it gave was a bit vague, as the watch would only suggest how many minutes to spend on each of the training zones. Perhaps the user only expected a little too much of the watch. Another complaint was about the web sync function not working well enough and seemed to be a beta version.
Other than these issues, you will most likely benefit from this heart rate monitor for your fitness programs. You will be amazed at how much more efficiently you exercise when you know when you reach your targeted heart rates!
Women’s Polar FA20 Fitness Computer
February 8, 2011 by Heart Rate Monitor
Filed under Women's Heart Rate Monitors, Womens Heart Rate Monitor
Having a sense of femininity in a simple way while staying fit and on the go is the Women’s Polar FA20 Fitness Computer’s purpose. Although it is a little bigger than the other Polar F-Series watches, it has additional features that make up for its added size. This ingenious device takes note of your daily activities such as jogging at 5 am in the morning, walking the dog every afternoon, doing your household chores from morning until the evening, and many more. It is a device that monitors the user’s activity level all throughout the day. Therefore, any woman who wants to stay fit, monitor how they lose weight, or lose more weight is recommended to have this watch.
The device has an ivory coloured exterior with a black and white display. It is water resistant up to 30 meters which would mean that a user who loves to take a swim every now and then would probably pick this device to monitor how they stay fit and healthy with their chosen activity which is swimming. The device has a pedometer watch with a back light for low light situations. Users need not to worry for losing their data since the device has button that helps the user lock the data. The battery of the functional watch can be easily replaced. The user would also know when to replace to battery since it has an indicator for a low battery. The device also has a feature that would save the battery’s life since the display turns off whenever the user is not in activity or whenever the user is sleeping.
Women’s Polar FA20 Fitness Computer Review:
There have been a lot of customers who loved the device since it has a built in motion sensor that provides all day 24/7 measurements of your daily activities that would include the calories burned, active steps taken, total distance travelled, and it tells the user how active she is with an incremental interval of 30, 60, and 75 minutes. One customer pointed out the health and fitness levels that the product has since the two various levels are considered as indicators that would indicate whether the user is in health or fitness level such as whenever the user is swimming or walking. The watch of the user who is swimming would indicate that she is in fitness while the watch of the user who is walking would indicate that she is in health. This would mean that the indicator would change depending on the user’s activity or whether the user is in relaxed pace or not.
Most of all, the users who bought this device commend the product’s user friendly appeal since the user can just simply wear it like a watch and press the middle button to get started. With just one press of a button, any user can now gauge how active she is, determine which kind of activity that would suit her needs since it determines how much calories she burns per activity, or how much more activity she needs in order to stay fit and healthy.
Women’s Heart Rate Monitor
July 16, 2010 by Heart Rate Monitor
Filed under Women's Heart Rate Monitors, Womens Heart Rate Monitor
Heart rate monitors with chest straps are generally designed to fit for a man’s chest. Wristwatches are sometimes too bulky and too large for a woman’s wrist. To address these concerns, specialized heart rate monitors are sold for women.
Color, Style and Comfort
As mentioned, the main difference between heart rate monitors for men and women is the style. When we talk about chest straps, for the device to read the heart rate accurately, there must be good contact between the plastic portion of the band and the user’s skin. It has to fit snugly in order for this to happen. Otherwise, the reading will be erroneous.
Forerunner 110 W/HRM Pink 000 by Garmin
The good thing is that women don’t have to endure wearing those annoying straps. Many companies nowadays have designed a women’s heart rate monitor transmitters in the form of a cardio sports bra—that’s hitting two birds with one stone. Undeniably, there is a need for women to wear a special garment for additional breast support during exercise. In addition, the fabric used for this material has conductive properties that helps analyze the EKG signals. Therefore, a sports bra that incorporates a heart rate monitor would be a great option. Although some women may find a strapless type a lot more comfortable.
Then there is the receiver. In the past, wristwatches have a strong masculine color and style. Thankfully, women’s wristwatches are now lighter and less bulky compared to those created for men. The wristband is even slimmer that is more comfortable with feminine wrists.
Function
For the device to calculate certain data like calories burned, the user needs to key in his age, height, body weight, and gender. At this point, sex already becomes a factor, which is good because it gives you an accurate calorie burn.
In general, there is not much difference between men’s and women’s heart rate monitors. In terms of measurement of the heart rate, the function is still the same.